"Last time I saw him, he was a baby and I was holding him," said Linda McCloskey of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. "And to hold him again, I felt complete."

McCloskey said she was living in South Carolina with her sister and brother in the 1950s when the state removed them from an unsafe household. She and her sister, Betty Jean Musselman, reunited shortly after, but they could never find their brother, Robert Barwick.

Barwick was born deaf and non-verbal and was not quite 1-year-old when he was separated from his sisters.

For 60 years the sisters searched for their brother, often thinking they would never find him. They recently decided to post a picture on Facebook asking for the public's help.

In just a few days, they were directed to West Palm Beach, where their brother had been living for the last 30 years. He never knew he had sisters.

"It's just a big surprise. I don't know what to say. It's such a big surprise," Barwick said through a sign language interpreter.

Thursday afternoon, the three siblings reunited with an embrace and with tears.

"I told him that he has been loved since he was a baby," Musselman said.

"No words can describe it," McCloskey said. "It was just unbelievable. It was just joy to see him."

As for the future, the siblings said they'd like to take some time to get to know each other.

They said they also need to decide who will host Thanksgiving and Christmas.